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...The burgeoning fashion industry of the early 20th century was a haven for queer creatives, from the American-English designer Charles James onwards....
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...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...That generation has now passed on and performances of all but the most popular operas by Johann Strauss II, Lehár and Offenbach have become a rarity outside their home countries....
...The controversial scenes — which find the recently deceased princess speaking with Charles and the Queen — are likely to only offend those who seek to be offended....
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...For Charlie Porter of the online vintage and antique shop TAT, pewter is the perfect starter metal....
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...Coins with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 in September 2022, are still in circulation and will remain legal tender as they are gradually phased out over time....
...Macron ably channelled that sense when he recorded a moving message addressed to Britons after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last year....
...Illustrated by a superb swagger portrait reminiscent of Charles I on horseback, Cowboy Carter is the second part of a projected trilogy telling the story of different music genres....
...For its architects, Augustus Pugin and Charles Barry, the Gothic Revival aesthetic was part of an attempt to co-opt Gothicism as the national style....
...Sir Charles Walker, a Tory grandee, said many MPs would settle for sound economic governance. “I want a government that is fiscally responsible, first and foremost,” he said....
...Charles Randell, former chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, also advised on the plan and said it provided for “stable and proportionate regulation”....
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...The precise history of the phenomenon is hazy, but quizzes became popular in the 1970s after a company called Burns & Porter began putting the “organised” in “organised fun” in venues across the country....
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...When silversmith Colin Morrison-Ignatieff stood with six other craftsmen to present the new Elizabeth Sword to King Charles III in July, it brought full-circle a story which began over two centuries before...
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